Comment Re:I use cobol, you insensitive clod! (Score 1) 387
If you have not yet read Charles Stross' Laundry novels, now is the time.
If you have not yet read Charles Stross' Laundry novels, now is the time.
Ukrainian tanks don't have reactive armor, as the article points out.
And sure, no one is suggesting launching nukes at Russia based on the evidence we have right now.
That's pretty normal for press coverage, for what it's worth: they have to fill up space, so will throw in unrelated pictures all the time...
Getting clear close-ups of stuff in a war zone is hard, of course, especially if the stuff is being hidden.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-... has some photographs if you care.
An hour with him is worth it. He's been around since before
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http://www.charlesmann.org/art... has a good summary.
CrimsonAvenger's point was that we've had evidence since the early 1800s that humans (and probably other hominids, in fact) ate mammoths. Nowhere did he say that humans were eating mammoths in the 1800s.
Al Gore, March 8, 1999, interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, "I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
Al Gore, March 8, 1999, about 0.2 seconds later in the same interview "...I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country’s economic growth, environmental protection, improvements in our educational system." Wired magazine yanked that quote out of context and it has never been the same since.
Absolutely right. I always thought that was a bit unfair, but I didn't mind too much, because I believe Gore has always been insufficiently lambasted for his active advocacy of the Clipper chip
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It's really not that complicated. Firefox releases work like this: 6 weeks of development, 12 weeks of testing and stabilization (split up into two 6-week phases called "aurora" and "beta"; the former corresponds more or less to feature freeze and the latter more or less to "code freeze unless we discover a stop-ship issue"), then release.
So right now 31 is released, 32 is beta, 33 is aurora, and development is happening on 34.
I suggest you take that browser from the old days, run it on today's web sites, and see how many hundreds of MB it takes. Assuming it loads them at all.
Variables don't; constants aren't.